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Extra Credit 004 - The Monster Squad (Patreon)

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2022-10-30 12:21:48
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It's our October bonus episode - NOW ON VIDEO! (link below) We opted to simply record our chat live this time but will be working to gradually improve these video sessions.

Join us as we discuss the 1987 flick The Monster Squad! Special thanks to Ryan Gerossie of The Six Demon Bag podcast for the tidbits. Listen to their episode on The Monster Squad vs. Goonies!

Video link for this episode: https://youtu.be/H1uTP5oLY5A

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Jim Cannon

Before I listen to the episode: Confession time. I was too old by a year or two for Monster Squad; it should have struck me right between the eyes, but I welcomed it with a shrug. I just couldn't connect with it, and then the end with the army showing up because of a note scrawled in crayon retroactively ruined what little enjoyment I had with the monsters themselves. But now I am thinking about those bundles of dynamite in particular, straight out of Looney Tunes, and wondering... did I just not get it? Was Monster Squad meant to be a live action cartoon? More thoughts later.

Karl Haikara

I love to hear the unedited longer episode I hope you keep up this format! Great episode

MonsterTalk

When Dracula could be incorporeal but is denied, such a mist opportunity…

MonsterTalk

Dracula’s ride becomes inCARporial.

Jim Cannon

And later: I do enjoy the looser, rougher feel of the video chat, although I just listened to it. Hard to watch while driving! But yeah no, your summary confirmed my earlier impression of this movie being too goofy for me. I might enjoy it more now, when I don't take my monsters as seriously as I did as an obnoxious/precocious pre-teen.

Adequately Excellent Entertainment

Me, a Gen X: (Singing along with the podcast to the Kids Incorporated theme song) My Elder Millennial Boyfriend Todd: (watching me in abject confusion) Me: “K… I… D… S. YES!” Todd: “… what is this?” Me: “Kids Incorporated… It was basically the ‘Cop Rock’ or kids shows.” Todd: (confusion becomes abject horror) “The… what?” It took him a minute but eventually, to his dismay, he realized he DID know what Cop Rock was. ThenI tried, “More like ‘Glee’, but the kids are hanging out at a…. Factory? ….No, warehouse. Where they… work? And there are significantly fewer adults around, and they solve their problems and do their… work… by singing covers of Karma Chameleon.” Todd: “What sort of work did they do in this abandoned warehouse?” Me: “The warehouse wasn’t abandoned Todd, Kids Incorporated was occupying it.” Todd: “what kind of ‘Double Dragon The Movie ‘ nightmare dystopia was this show set in?” EDIT: We just watched a Kids Incorporated rendition of “Message In a Bottle” by the Police and it was a warehouse they transformed into a nightclub for children. Not a factory. How could I have forgotten that?

Erik Gordon

I like the format for the bonus show. I had to go and rewatch the flick. Soo bad it's great.I kinda miss the days when so much in a film didn't have to make a lick of sence.

Exanimus

Oh, Chris... Imagine yourself a 14-year-old boy in 1987 with no internet, when what to your wondering eyes should appear but a naked lady just across the way! You'd peep until you dropped! Gawk until your brains fell out! Also - Rudy gets the gun from a dead policeman. This movie is a perfect example of kid logic; of COURSE there's a buried amulet under a house by the swamp, of COURSE Dracula can shoot lasers. Big sisters are always mean, and little sisters are always annoying. Even Horace thinks so, he does call her "Phoebe the Feeb", after all. In short - this is the greatest movie of all time.

Jason Thompson

I agree that the best scene is when Dracula is beating the crap out of all the cops.

Adequately Excellent Entertainment

I think the kids might think Wolfman wouldn’t have nards because in a lot of later werewolf movies have all the clothes rip off during the transformation and the werewolf form is usually all Ken Doll down there regardless of gender.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

That "Rock Until You Drop" song came up in a 80s Halloween mix I was listening to via YouTube this past weekend, and I couldn't remember whence it came. Mystery solved. Unfortunately it's now in my head. Maybe I can pretend essay grading is an 80s montage.

Evan

Hocus Pocus made me think about this too, we just really assumed kids knew a lot about virginity back in the day, huh? I don’t necessarily want to dive too deep into that here, but it’s definitely an interesting reminder given current discourse

Bradley Alan Nord

Okay, first, I must say... long time listener (around episode 10 of the o.g. hpllpc), first time caller... I love the video viewing format! This is great being able to see you both as you discuss this film... two things, having never seen both of you before, I really thought your voices and faces should have been swapped in the beginning, but as your discussion continued my brain finally agreed with reality, phew! Also, no mention of the "Stephen King Rules" shirt? I bought my son this shirt three years ago when he went to college and he gets nothing but compliments from the professors who are our age. Thank you for your consistency, your podcast has become a staple in my listening life!

Eric Sroka

Great timing! I watched this with my kids while carving pumpkins. Definitely things that today are not cricket, but overall, I thought it held up as a goofy Halloween movie. One slight disagreement with Chad: John Gries’ character in Fright Night 2 I don’t think is a werewolf. He gets chastised for not biting the girl on the neck, is burned by the roses, and gets killed by a stake through the heart (or a wooden crossbow bolt anyway). I think he’s just a beast-like vampire.

Andrew Brown

Catching up - but I was struck at how you guys were so uncomfortable with some of the scenes (like the nude picture, etc.) but to me it seems it's only a few things different from Stranger Things. I think it's the "tone" of the film that sets these expectations versus the scenes themselves

Mark Brett

"Adolescent Fonzie Peeper" is my new favorite character archetype.

Ellen

LOVED watching you very HANDSOME men live! Drama & comedy is something that is great listening to, but awesome watching because of all the gestures & physicality! I loved this video! Would love to see you do more of this, if you can.

Emily Reilly

Loved watching the live started listening on a walk but had to check out the video to check out your singing! I like the looser feel of the unedited recording. Nice to know you are both human.

Michael Cunliffe

I loved the Monster Squad, so it was great to hear you two take a look back at it. However, the way you say ‘The Monster did it’ in reference to the camera being set off made me feel like the whole film is the terrible, overly convoluted excuse that a bunch of kids came up with when the drug store called their parents about the pervy photo they’d dropped off for developing. 🤣

Richard Wolfe

I loved this movie growing up as well (not so much the gay pejoratives, those did sting a little on the rewatch). I laughed out loud when Chris observed that of course a pre-teen has a gun, it’s America! Always funnier when true. And also completely agree that a “remake” or something along the same lines would be fun to watch with the Universal Monsters gang. I want that Dracula to be comically obsessed with his opera night outfit and medallion.